On Mon, 11 May 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> ** Reply to note from "Damond Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mon, 11 May 1998
>09:19:57
> -0400
> > Is it just me, or do Western Digital drives fail as much for everyone
> > else as they do for me. I've had to replace the same 1.2 gig drive three
> > times in the last year. I just replaced this drive (via RMA) about two
> > weeks ago...it's failed before I could send the old one in!
>
> years and a 850 meg WD Caviar for the last three years both of which are in my
>BBS/personal
> use machine with nary a problem. Both drives incure heavy usage and are up 24/7.
>Sure hope
> your experiences with the WD's aren't a sign of slipping quality control on WD's
>part as I plan to
> buy WD again when upgrading the harddrive system.
Hmm, we've had a lot of trouble lately with WD drives crapping out. On one
system in Claiborne Parish we've replaced the drive THREE TIMES. The last
one only lasted three weeks before starting to give hard errors again :-(.
The strange thing is that we have WD drives out there that are five years
old and not giving a lick of trouble. And it's not just any particular
size drive that is giving the trouble... we've had WD drives of all sizes
go wonky. Heck, my WD 3.0gb drive at home has a stiction problem
(sometimes won't spin back up after being powered down), which is why my
new drive is a Quantum :-}. (Not to mention that Quantum makes good
low-cost SCSI drives and most other manufacturers don't seem to anymore,
maybe because of the way the Mac market has so rapidly imploded).
Eric Lee Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] Executive Consultants
Systems Specialist Educational Administration Solutions
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